Content warning: Lavender House, and therefore this review, discusses characters experiencing suicidal ideation Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen brings the atmosphere and mystery of a classic noir novel into the lives of queer people in the 1950s. Set in San Francisco, the novel follows Evander Mills, who has recently been kicked off the police …
Reading The Last Dreamwalker is like slowly easing yourself into a hot bath of bittersweet and magical family strife; as you slide deeper, the old secrets, new connections, and ever-present hurts slip up across your lips, into your nose, filling your ears with their muffling warmth and your eyes with their sting. It’s languorous—if you …
Nona the Ninth, the upcoming third book in the Locked Tomb series, is coming out September 13th and we are HYPED. In the sarcastic spirit of the books we decided to do a meme-based recap to remind you what happened in Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth. Obviously major spoilers are to follow. This …
Are you looking for a good horny summer read? I have the book for you: A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland. It’s coming out August 30th, 2022 and while it is not perfect, it is an excellent modern romance with details I hope we see more of in the genre. A Taste …
The independent city-state of Qilwa has seen better days. Beset by plague, the city is fracturing along ethnic and class lines, with the wealthy hiding in their homes while the poor and disempowered fight for what very few resources are available for treatment. No, this book isn’t set in 2020, and no, I don’t think …
Along with my list of books read, I keep a list of particularly excellent quotes from those books, insights or particularly poetic turns of phrase that I know I’ll want to revisit. I don’t record things from every book; some novels have great plots or characters without ever really hitting that point where brilliant insight …
Sarah Gailey’s upcoming book Just Like Home hits a perfect sweet spot between true crime vibes and creeping gothic horror. Normally I try to read about one book to review a month; this book I finished in a week. It was so compelling I read the entire first half in one day. In Just Like …
Perhaps it’s the times, or perhaps it’s my specific brand of pessimism, which I don’t wish on anyone, but A Prayer for the Crown-Shy made me sad. Not tragically so, and not also without making me think, making me smile, and ultimately making me glad, but this second entry in the Monk and Robot series …
I confess that I had never read “The Fall of the House of Usher” until What Moves the Dead came out. (Other Poe, yes, but I prefer his poetry.) But I could not in good conscience review this novel without reading the story it is directly and explicitly commenting upon, and so to The Collected …
Dolly Parton, a woman who we can all agree is unequivocally herself (and her best self, at that), once advised to “find out who you are and do it on purpose.” I mention this not because Little Bird is about country singers or Tennessee, but because author Tiffany Meuret has so completely embodied this advice. …